The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. D. H. Lawrence More Quotes by D. H. Lawrence More Quotes From D. H. Lawrence Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it. D. H. Lawrence breakup love life The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread. D. H. Lawrence soul beauty inspirational Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness. D. H. Lawrence beautiful-soul patterns beauty I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets. D. H. Lawrence regret motivation inspirational Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. D. H. Lawrence freedom fighting children Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings. D. H. Lawrence ships love-is way We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen. D. H. Lawrence sky inspirational love Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass. D. H. Lawrence real people looks Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to. D. H. Lawrence consciousness ends literature Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't. D. H. Lawrence poison havens America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it. D. H. Lawrence real men life Money is our madness, our vast collective madness. D. H. Lawrence madness money literature Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen. D. H. Lawrence hard-work age sky The living moment is everything. D. H. Lawrence self-help moments time What sex is, we don't know, but it must be some sort of fire. For it always communicates a sense of warmth, of glow. And when this glow becomes a pure shine, then we feel the sense of beauty. We all have the fire of sex slumbering or burning inside us. If we live to be ninety, it is still there. Or, if it dies, we become one of those ghastly living corpses which are unfortunately becoming more numerous in the world. D. H. Lawrence shining fire sex We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known. D. H. Lawrence touched known no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all there is in life, it seems to me. But I grant you, if you deny the variety of love you deny love altogether. If you try to specialize love into one set of accepted feelings, you wound the very soul of love. Love must be multi-form, else it is just tyranny, just death D. H. Lawrence love-you love-is long Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. D. H. Lawrence taken wisdom life Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. D. H. Lawrence life-and-love work peace The dead don't die. They look on and help. D. H. Lawrence funeral death looks
